This is very correct and I should have phrased things differently: you can call any idea or opinion "stupid", and you can also scream whatever you want, but you can't do anything to limit their spread through censorship (and there may be more people, also with louder voices than you :)

Precisely. Perhaps now you understand my original point.

Not fully, as I like my american freedom a whole lot more than comfort: I'll take a free but imbecile-full society with free speech + the freedom to bear arm over the european version of """free speech""" + restriction of gun ownership to the police and the military.

Curiously enough, that seem to goes hand-in-hand with the police throwing hand grenades and using RPG against protesters - this may be A-ok in Europe, but that wouldn't fly here.

Woosh